DA PO 1 I REASONS I. FOR Addreffing His MAJESTY to invite into ENGLAND their Highneffes, the Electrefs Dowager and the Electoral Prince of HANOVER. And likewife, II. REASONS FOR Attainting and abjuring the pretended Prince of WALES, and all others pretending any Claim, Right, or Title from the late King JAMES and Queen MARY. WITH ARGUMENTS for making a vigorous War againſt France. At nunc a Puero Theba capientur inermi ?------ Quem quidem Ego actutum (modo Vos abfiftite) cogame Affumtumque Patrem, commentaque Sacra fateri. Ovid. Met. 1. 3. LONDON, Printed, and Sold by John Nutt near Stationers-Hall, M. DCC. II. Hist.- English Howey 3-4-42 45018 [r] REASONS for addreſſing his Majefty to invite into England their Highneffes, the Electreſs Dowager and the Electoral Prince of HANOVER. I. I BELIEVE there are none of thoſe who were fincere and hearty in paffing the laſt A&t for ſettling the Succeffion of the Crown in the Proteftant Line, but will alſo be found to be as zealous and preffing to have the Electoral Prince of Hanover ſpeedily invited into England, by Reaſon that being but yet eighteen Years of Age, he may receive the most early Impref- fions of Love and Kindneſs for the British Soil it felf, as well as to make the Cuftoms of this Contry habitual to him like thoſe of his native Place; and, in a Word, to have him Educated in the Language, Laws, and the eſtabliſht Religion of the Nation he's to govern, not by his own Will and Diſcretion, but according to certain Rules and Limitations, wherof he ſhou'd not remain ignorant till the Time they are to be put in practice. Theſe and the like Ar- guments are ſo evident of themſelves, that they are in every Body's Mouth ; and Nothing is more taken for granted by the People, nor more confidently ex- pected than the Prince's coming, to whom they have already decreed in their public Difcourfe (which fhows the public Inclination) an equal Rank and Re- venue with what was enjoy'd by the late Duke of Glocefter, nor are they bebind- hand in their Reſpects to the Electreſs his Grandmother. · II. BUT there are other Reaſons which make the People extremely de- firous to have thefe Pledges of the common Safety within Call and in their View for altho the Act of Succeffion be an eternal Bar against the pretended Prince of Wales, as well as the whole Popijh Line; yet in Cafe of any fatal Ac- cidents (which God mercifully prevent). I think it calie to conceive that the Ink and Parchment of this Law may prove but a ſmall Defence, and that Perſons refident on the Spot, known and belov'd for their Merit, muft needs have a better Intereft than fuch as live at a great Distance, and are to feek on the proper Occafion, only heard of by Report, the People Strangers to their Virtues, and without the Hopes of injoying that Felicity under their A Govern- IA 1170 [ 2 ] Government, which Acquaintance and the Experience of their good Qualities muft naturally give them. Indeed their Prefence is fo neceffary in England, that were there no other Reaſon to be given for it befides the Quicknefs of Re- courſe to 'em in Time of Danger, that alone is fufficient to fatisfie all thoſe who with well to the English Liberty, and to top the Mouths of fuch as are the Enemies and Betrayers of their Contry, and who always put Rubs and Delays to what they cannot artfully fruftrat, nor dare openly oppofe; for they must ftill be doing Somthing to deferve their Hire of Iniquity. III. FROM fom colorable Pretences (tho difficult to be imagin'd or fupported) they will be for fufpending the Invitation of thofe Princes for a longer Time; but their real Aim will be to fee what may happen in the mean while in Favor of the pretended Prince of Wales: or that, if all things fail be- tides, the French King may land him fomwhere in England to create a civil Warr, and fo to beget a Diverfion at leaft by the Strength of his Party, fol- licitted by whofe Importunities, and relying on whofe Promifes, we have un- doubted Proofs to ſhow (what is already believ'd by all the rest of Europe as well as the English Addreffors) that he was incourag'd fo madly to take upon him the Diſpoſal of our Succeffion, and contrary to His Word and Honor, as well as the Faith of public Treatys, to acknowlege this pretended Prince as King of Great Brittain and Ireland. Tho this Proceding be no lefs ridiculous than injuft, yet it is not quite fo void of Ground as at firft Sight it may feem; for civil Broils have bin rais'd on much ſmaller Occafions, as it appears by the conftant Courſe of univerfal Hiftory, and particularly in our own Annals, where you may fee that on the landing of fuch theatrical Princes (as PERKIN WARBECK in HENRY the Seventh's Time) they were not only join'd by thoſe of their deluded or defigning Party, but alſo by ſuch as on other Accounts had any Pique or Malice against the rightful and lawful King, as well as by all thoſe whofe broken or defperat Fortunes gave 'em Hopes of bettering their Condition by the Disturbance of the prefent Tranquillity, and by the Alteration of the eſtabliſht Government. This, I grant, is in our Cafe by no means likely to happen ; but wife, Nations have bin ever commended for fecuring themſelves againft all poffible Dangers; and there can be no Fence ſo proper against the forcible Intrufion of the pretended Prince of Wales, as the voluntary Invitation of the real Prince of Hanover; tho I beg Pardon for naming thoſe two in a Breath, intending no other Compariſon than as we oppoſe GOD to the DEVIL. IV. THE Enemys of our happy Conſtitution are ſo reftless in their At- temts to overturn it, that, as I faid before, they will be for perplexing the cleareft matters with inextricable Difficulties, or putting all imaginable Stops to what they cannot barefac❜dly hinder. Thus, not daring to appear againſt the Ele&oral Prince's coming, they are for paffing over the Electreſs tho fhe be firſt nam'd in the Act of Succeffion, and the Perfon by whofe Right the reft of the Proteftant [ 3 ] Proteftant Line are to inherit the Crown. The Prince is but the Third in this Family, and tho by Reaſon of his Youth we wou'd gladly have the Care of his Education, yet it was never meant by this that the Electreſs ſhou'd not com into England as firft of the Line; nor ought the Prince himſelf be without fuch an Inftructress as will influence him more than all the World befides. Her great Wiſdom and knowlege are confeft and proclaim'd all over Europe. She has had a Hand already in forming the Manners and Minds of feveral Princes of both Sexes, the most celebrated for all forts of Virtues and Endowments, wherof the prefent Eleitor her Son, and the Queen of Pruffia her Daughter are noble Examples, being admir'd by Strangers, ador'd by their Subjects, and reſpected by all the well-affected Princes and States of Europe. We may think her Care will not be lefs about the Government of the Prince her Grand-child, who has bin hitherto train'd under her Infpection; and,confidering all Circum- ſtances, no other Perſon can more truly repreſent to him his Duty, better arm him againſt Flatterers, be a ftri&ter Guard to him from corrupt Society, give him graver Admonition, or freer Reproof. Others will either do Nothing of this, or he perhaps not ſo well receive it at their Hands. But they are Affi- ftances which no Youth of never fuch promifing Hopes fhou'd want, eſpecially fince no Body is born inſpir'd, and that as great Pains are requifit to moderat Men's Paffions as to form their Underftandings. God be prais'd he's paſt the Management of Governors appointed rather for State than Inftruction, and not to be ſpoil'd by the Stiffness, Formality, and Pedantry of inferior Pedagogs, which prevents a great deal of Contention about the Choice or Fitneſs of the Perſons, and removes the Jealouſy which thoſe of any Party might have againſt another about the infufing or fettling of his Principles; yet he's not above the Advice of one who is of no Side or Faction, but intirely devoted to the public Intereit of the Nation; and who (how falíe foever the Pretences of others may be from their ſelfiſh Deſigns) muſt be confeft to wiſh him the beſt of any in the World, and confequently will be perpetually inftilling into him what will make for his Advantage, Security, Glory, and Felicity, without any pri- vat End of her own. V. BUT let no Body fo underſtand me as if I made this Care of the Prince to be the chief Argument for the Ele&refs's coming into England; for how ne- ceffary foever his Preſence may be (and I, for my Part, think it abſolutely indiſpenſable) yet ſhe has a better Title to it, as being the only Perſon expref- ly nam'd in the Act of Succeſſion, and the firſt of that Line by whofe Right the Prince himſelf muſt claim only as the third in Deſcent. In plain Terms fuch as pretend to fend for the one without the other are playing a new French Game, which needs no further Explanation. While the Bill of Succeffion was under the Confideration of Parlament, but especially after the A&t had paft the Royal Affent, I remember all the Diſcourſe of the Town and Kingdom was 2- bout the coming over of the Princess SOPHIA,as they ufually ftile her Highness. To this they were univerfally inclin'd by Reafon of their Affection to a Per- fon [ 4 ] fon fo famous for all Kinds of Virtues, for her great Experience, her extraor dinary Learning and Wit, and for her gratious Familiarity, Affability, and Ea- finefs of Acceſs, which are Qualities that feldom meet in thoſe of her high Rank and Dignity. VI. LET us likewife call to mind how mightily pleas'd we all were, when we understood that this Princefs did from her Infancy not only look on her ſelf as an Engliſh Woman, ſpeak our Language as well as any of the Natives, and always treated thofe of our Iland with the utmoft Kindneſs and Marks of Efteem; but that ſhe likewife had the ſtrongeſt Inclination imaginable to fee her original Contry, once at leaft before fhe dy'd. This was no finall Confideration to recommend her; and, had not the Act of Suc- ceffion paft, tis believ'd fhe wou'd have honor'd us with fuch a Viſit this laft Autumn. But to com now of her ſelf wou'd not be altogether confiftent with her ufual Prudence, nor agreable to the reft of her Chara&er: nei- ther wou'd our Enemies be wanting to ſpread their ordinary Calumnies, and to infinuat that the already leapt at the Crown, a Thing to be, ridicul'd by all who have the Honor to know her Highneſs, or the Senfe to judg right- ly of public Affairs. But without an Invitation tis not probable now ſhe'll ever com; and fhall we be fo bafe as to make that Ad an Obftacle to her coming, which fhou'd naturally be the Occafion of it, had ſhe never mani- fefted fuch Intentions her ſelf before? We were ſo far from this Difpofition, that ſom eminent Men made it paſs for a Complement to leave his Majesty the Care of this Invitation, which they faid had bin otherwife perform'd by the Parlament; and fo the Body of the People were fatisfy'd the Thing fhou'd quickly be or was already don. Yet more difcerning Perfons faw that this was the ordinary Artifice of certain Gentlemen to charge all invidious Things on his Majefty: wheras tis plainly evident, that, unleſs he wou'd maintain her Court out of the Civil Lift, the King cou'd not poffibly fend' for her, notwithſtanding the Gift of the Crown to her Family be principally owing to his Contrivance, Propoſal, and Intereſt. But the regular way of doing this, is for both Houſes of Parlament to addrefs his Majefty to ſend for their Highneffes, which no Body queftions but he'll be very ready to do on the public Account, as well as theirs and his own. VII. NOW coms a new Pretence against it from the pretended Prince of Wales's' Party, who will acknowlege perhaps that their Highneſſes ought to be here if this were practicable; but that, the Nation having contra&ed great Debts the laft Warr, and being likely to run a new Score in another Warr juft on breaking out, we muft take Care not to increaſe our Expences. I am as much for good husbanding the Mony of the Public as any Man, and I hope we fhall take fuch Meaſures as to amend in the approaching Warr what has bin amifs in the laft. But yet they are only unneceffary Expences that are to be avoided for otherwife we muft make no Warr for the future, and ought [s] oùght not to have bin at the Charge of any former one; there must be no Fleets equipt, no Civil Lift allow'd, no Magiftrats paid, nor any Go- vernment ſupported. Now, as theſe are Abftirdities no Body will be fo mad to defend; fo if for the Reaſons already alledg'd, and others- of the like kind, the Preſence of their Highneſſes be not thought neceffary in England, I fhall likewife think the Expence of maintaining 'em here futable to their Quality to be a Burden on the Nation which they need not bear. But their coming over being granted neceſſary, if the Nation fhou'd think fit to allow the Expence, it is already cut out in a manner to our Hands, giving the Young Prince as much as was ſettl'd on the late Duke of Glocefter, and to the Electreſs fifty thouſand Pounds per Annum, the ſame having bin allotted to the late King JAMES's Queen for her Joynture; and which, tho after the Peace of Keswick, it was by an extraordinary Act of Generofity offer'd her abroad, yet fhe fcornfully refus'd to accept, rather than comply with the Terms of leaving France. But I beg the Favor not to be mifunderflood, as if I were fo ignorant of my Sphere as to prefcribe to the Parlainent; I only acquaint them according to my Duty with what I take to be the Sense of the Nation, and leave 'em for the Reft to regulat thefe Matters - accor- ding to their Wiſdom, which I queftion not but they'll perform to their own Honor, and the Satisfaction of all the Parties concern'd. VIII. TO the Body of the People I need uſe no Arguments on this Subject, they being already perfuaded of the Juftice and Neceffity of this Matter: but I have a few Questions to ask of certain Perfons, who were not long ago very forward to oblige their former Queen with fo much Mony, when it was only hinted in the Houſe of Commons to be defign'd for her Service. And, firft, Whether the fame Men who were for allowing the Ufe of her Joynture to an exil'd and ejected Queen, can be againft fettling as much on the next Heir in the Act of Succeffion, if they be well affected to the preſent Government? Which is more eligible, to fend Fifty thouſand Pounds yearly out of the Kingdom, or to have it all ſpent at home among our félves? Whether it was fitter to give it in an Enemy's Contry to a Popis Princeſs, or in old England to a Proteftant Princess, the latter of our own Flesh and Blood, the former an Alien and an Enemy to our Nation? Whether it was more reaſonable to beftów fo much Treafure for the entertaining of Re- bels, the paying of Spies, and the hiring of Affaffins; or to give it to our King and Contry's beft Friend, one that will keep a Court which will be the Refort of all fober, virtuous, and polite Company, and that will en- tertain in her Service the Sons and Daughters of our chief Nobility and Gentry? I might infinitly multiply fuch Queftions, and therfore I fhall ask but one more which comprehends all the reft, being the true State of the Cafe in our preſent Affairs, and it is, whether we fall stand by the Succeffors le gally establisht by the King and Parlament of England, or by those nam'd and arbi- trarily acknowledg'd by the perfidious Tyrant of France? I hope the Refolution is no Difficulty [6] Difficulty to any Lover of Liberty or the Proteftant Religion. The Wildon of the Parlament will as much appear in providing for the Succeffors, as in providing for the Succeffion; and herein their own particular Affection is con- cern'd, as well as the public Honor and Safety of the Kingdom. IX. WE are now about to ingage in a new War for fecuring our Territo- ries, our religious and civil Liberty, to affift and protect our Allies, to reftore and ſettle the Ballance of Europe. Towards carrying on of which juſt and pious Purpoſes (as his Majefty truly expreffes himself) there will be a Neceffity of eſtabliſhing ſeveral Fonds, both for making good the Deficiencys of our pre- ſent Debts, and to ſupply the Future Charges of the common Cauſe. I offer it therfore to ferious Contideration, whether, on fending for the Electreſs and the Prince into England, all forts of Men, both Natives and Foreners, will not the more readily truft their Mony with the Public, as finding us to be in good Earnest about the Act of Succeffion, ſeeing the Perfons concern'd already fixt in the Kingdom, and perceiving all Hopes of deftroying the prefent Government to be cut off from the French King, either by himſelf, or, his Tool prepared for that Purpoſe, the pretended Prince of Wales. X. ANOTHER Difficulty ftarted by the Jacobites,is,that her royal High- neſs the Princeſs ANNE of Denmark will not be well content with the Ele- arefs's coming to refide in England; which is a very extravagant Objection: for their Dignities are fo different, and their Ranks fo well adjufted, that there can poffibly happen no Difputes between them on the Score of Place or Precedence. They have both of 'em too much Senſe to quarrel on any other Account; the rincefs having heartily approv'd of the laft Act of Succeffion, and particular- ly written to congratulat the Electress on that Occafion. Befides that it is the Princess's vifible Intereft to have fuch a Support and Affiftance in maintaining her Right to the Crown: for as this is only grounded on two Acts of Parlament, wherof the laft is! that which makes the House of Hanover to fuccede her Highneſs and his Majefty in default of Iffue, fo this Family muſt as much pre- ferve her Title as their own, which Obligation is reciprocal. And as a great many other Circumſtances (befides being of the fame Line) contribute to make the Intereſts of both theſe Ladys to be the fame, fo there can be no Doubt of their living in a very good Underſtanding and ſtrict Friendſhip to- gether, which makes it unneceffary for me to infift any longer on this Head, left by taking Pains to confute it, I fhou'd ſeem to countenance a Surmiſe which puts an Affront on their Highness's Wifdom. XI. THERE want not thoſe who ſuggeſt, that the Electress has a ſort of fecret Enemys, who are not willing to ſee a Perfon fo near his Majesty, who might give him more wholfom Advice, and leſs intereſted than theirs. And there is no Doubt to be made but that one of her finiſh'd Wiſdom, and who ſo dearly loves the King (to whom she and her whole Family think themſelves, as [ 7 ] as indeed they are, under eternal Obligations) there is, I fay, no Que Ttion but he wou'd ftudy his Intereft, Safety, and Honor, as much as her own, and be ever ready to afft him with her beft Counfils. But as it is not eafy for defigning Men to impoſe on his Majesty, so the Electreſs has the lefs to fear from their Practices: and fhou'd any be fo imprudent as to enter on fuch impolitic Mcafures, tis our Happineſs that they are the fooneft difcover'd of any fort of Peo- ple, and that we can beft deal with them of all others. + XII. WHEN thofe, who were for bringing over the Prince a- lone, have nothing to fay againft what is alledg'd for the coming. of the Ele&refs, as they are without true Affection for any of the Proteftant Line, they may perhaps change their Note to ferve their Turn, and now feeem to approve of calling her into England, but pretend they cannot fend for the Prince, left they should be thought to neglect the Elector his Father, whofe Title is before him. Were thefe People fincere, they are preferable to thoſe who were for giving the Crown to the Prince, and wholly paffing over the Ele&or, than which there never was a more pernitious Project, either for dividing that Family, or embroiling our Affairs at home; but it is happily prevented by the Act of Succeffion, which all the well-affected People of this Realm promiſe in their numerous and hearty Addreffes to defend and maintain againft all Oppofers whatſoever. But to return to the Elector, he not being the firft of that Line, there is not the fame Neceffity for his being on the Spot as his Mo- ther, nor is there Need for the fame Convenience in his Education as that of the Young Prince his Son. Befides that he already go- verns a great, a valiant, and worthy People in Germany, where his Prefence is not only neceffary for their, Behoof, but likewife for the comanon Cauſe of Europe. XIII. I SHALL produce no more Reaſons for inviting the Ele- refs as well as the Prince into England, which I have urg'd for the Safety and Benefit of the Nation, and not on any Score to better her Condition; for in the Contry where the lives none was ever more rever'd or belov'd. No Princefs of Hanover had ever fo great a Re- venue fettl'd on her; and tis well known that her Jointure is not only fufficient to defray the Charges of her Court there, and to fup- ply the Liberalities to which her Circumftances may occafionally ob- lige her but that, tho fhe be as farr from being avaritious as pro- fufe, fhe yearly lays up very confiderably. So that, befides the Efta- bliſhment, which no good Englishman can grudge her here, the like- wife during her Life will bring fuch a Sum into this Nation, as B may [ 8 ] may ferve in fom Meaſure to counterballance what is drawn out of it by the Queen Dowager. But this, I hope, is one of the leaft Con- fiderations to increaſe our Wishes for having her among us; and that as we have chofen her for the worthyeft Succeffor to his Majesty and the Princefs, we fhall alſo think it worth while to enjoy her Prefence, and to fupport her Dignity, ་ REASONS [ 9 ] REASONS for attainting and abjuring the pretended Prince of Wales, and all others pretending any Claim, Right, or Title from the late King JAMES and Queen MARY. T XIV.TN the former part of this Difcourfe I have more than once made mention of a Party defigning to overthrow the Liberty and Religion of their Contry, being fome of 'em temted by the Profpect of getting large Shares of the Prey, to the taking wherof they are fo inftrumental; or, becauſe they deſpair to advance themſelves in a free Government, wheras the Choice of a Tyrant is not guided by Merit, but by his Humor, Avarice, or Luft and others of 'em are miſled by the Force of fuperftitious Principles to think an implicit Obe- dience in civil and religious Affairs to be the Duty of Subjects to their Superiors, and that the greateft Happineſs of any Contry confifts in be- ing under a defpotic Government. I fhall not determin which of theſe is the most numerous in the Party, nor need I inquire which has moſt Influence over the others, the Fools or the Knaves: but both are to be alike watch'd, difarm'd, and oppos'd by all thoſe who defire to call what they have their own, to have a Right to their Wives and Children, to their Goods and Poffeffions; to have a Share in making ſuch Laws as they may think moft conducing to their own Benefit; to be in a Ca- pacity of refifting all thofe who wou'd undo them by Violence or Fraud under any Pretence whatſoever; and laftly, they are to be re- fifted to Death by all fuch as prefer the Proteftant Religion, the Ad- vancement of Knowlege, and the Freedom of their Confciences, to the Idolatry, Ignorance, and Tyranny of the Popish Church. XV. THIS Party in general is now known by the Names of Jacobites, Frenchmen, the Adherents of the Prince of Wales, &c. but thofe of 'em who pretend to be Proteftants are particularly ftil'd High- Flyers, High-Churchmen, a few of 'em Nonjurants, and all of 'em Torys. In other Reigns they had other Names; but ever fince the Reformation they have continu'd the fame Defigns of Slavery, tho no Proteftants appear'd among 'em till the Reign of King JAMES I. They were B 2 all [ 10 ] all Papifts that gave any Difturbance to King Edward VI. No Pro- testants were concern'd in the Spanish Invafion of 1588, nor in the fre- quent Conspiracies againft the Life of Queen ELIZABETH; nei- ther did any of 'em refufe to fign the Affociation for defending her Per- fon, and revenging her Death, if it were violent. King JAMES I. gave Grounds enough to believe, by diverſe Speeches and A&ti- ons, that he wou'd be invefted with a Power above the Laws of the Lanu. He found fome Proteftant Stat:fimen to fecond his Intentions ; but his Son and Succeffor CHARLES I. found likewife fom Pro- teſtant Divines to preach up his abfolute Power, and to infufe fuch Principles into their Hearers, under the moft awful Impreffions of Religion. The fame thing was don by greater Numbers, and with leſs reſerve under CHARLES II. in whofe Time Paffive Obe- dience and Nonrefiftance to the King's Commands were firft made E- vangelic Doctrins. Tis fresh in every Body's Remembrance how far the Deſigns of the Papifts were advanc'd in his time against our Reli- gion and Government, and how little they cou'd do of themſelves, without the Affiftance of thofe pretended Proteftants who readily con- curr'd in all their Meaſures; who turn'd their horrid Plots into Ridi- cule, when they cou'd not deny the Facts, or were not able to fix 'em on the Proteftant Diffenters; who allow'd the King a Power to dif penfe with all our Laws civil and religious, which was to fet up what Government and Religion he pleas'd; who prefented Addreffes and Ab- horrences againft Parlaments; who were zealous to take away the Charters and Immunities of all the Corporations in the Kingdom, who promoted and approv'd the Murders committed under legal Forms on fuch as appear'd. for the Liberty of their Contry; and who, in a word, were fuch good Friends to the Papiſts, and thoſe fo fure of their Affiftance, that they never fail'd of giving one another a good Word, and doing all the mutual kind Offices they cou’d. XVI. IN King JAMES II.'s Reign the Mask was quite laid afide, Popery and Slavery difplay'd their Banners, and made a formidable At- tack. But by the Bleffing of God, thro the Courage and Conduct of his prefent Majefty, by the Learning and Refolution of the Church of England, and the Stedfaftnefs of moft other Protestants to the fame good Cauſe, our Enemies were utterly route, their execrable Ma- chinations fully difcover'd, and the Proteftant Confpirators fo fairly markt, as, one wou'd have thought, they thou'd never again, by the Virtue of any Diſguize, be miftaken for Friends to the Government or Religion they fo bafely betray'd. Nor was it any Doubt at that time to diverſe Perfons, and more have bin convinc'd of it fince by Experience, that the chief of thofe Divines who profan'd and proftitu- ted [II] ted their Function, of thofe Judges who wrefted and perverted the Laws, and of thofe Freemen who mercenarily gave up their Privi- leges, ought to have bin at leaft made for ever incapable of exerci- fing their feveral Callings, or bearing any other Offices in the Com-- monwealth, if the Lenity of the Government fhou'd think fit to ſpare 'em from ſuffering the capital Punishment they had fo juftly merited. But this being neglected by the Advice of fom whom I cannot com- mend for it, and the King being perfuaded by an Appearance of Mer- cy, as well as of complying with his Friends in a Contry where he was a Stranger, it might be reafonably expected that the Offendors wou'd fit afterwards quiet, never more intermeddle in thoſe nor the like Matters, and be very glad thus to eſcape. But all that fo thought quickly found themſelves deceiv'd, thefe People having with unparallel'd Ingratitude begun their old Tricks again as foon as the Storm was over, and ferving King WILLIAM as the Adder did his Benefactor, ſpitting all his Venom at him as foon as he recover'd Strength from the Warmth of that Fire by which the Farmer compaf- fionatly laid him when he was just expiring thro the Rigor of the Froft. XVII. THE Party oppos'd his Acceffion to the Crown, and endeavor'd to delude the Nation by their chimerical Expedient of a Regency, which had it really taken Effect (as it never cou'd, nor ever was intended ) muft prove to be what they always abhorr'd, a Republic, and the very worft fort too, an oligarchy: fo dearly they love arbitrary Power, that they cou'd never be induc'd to relinquish Monarchy, till they found out a Form that was a greater Tyranny. When they cou'd not bring this to effect, they were againſt the Recognition of his Title as rightful and law- ful King of this Realm, taking the Oath of Allegiance to him as a King de facto only, which in other Words is an Vurper, to whom you pay Obedience by Force, and which you may juſtly refuſe when you are able. There were many of em joyn'd with the Papifts in the fame Army un- der the abdicated King in Ireland, and afterwards they were promifcu- ouſly lifted with the Papifts here in Regiments of Horfe and Foot ready to appear in Arms, if the French Invafion from la Hogue had not happily mifcarry'd. When about the fame time there was a moft barbarous Plot difcover'd to Affaffinat his Majesty's Perfon, there were fom of 'em actually concern'd, and moft of 'em in their feveral Stations peremto- rily refus'd to enter into a voluntary Affociation with the reft of their Fellow Proteftants for preferving his Majefty's Perfon, and revenging his Death (if it were violent) on the Papifts. Their Pretences againſt doing this were fo pittifully ridiculous, that I admire at the Patience of thoſe who wou'd be fo abus'd, as to think any one Protestant could now [ 12 ] now make a Scruple of what all the Protestants unanimously did for Queen ELIZABETH, to whom, without derogating from her glorious Character, they were not half fo much oblig'd as we are to King WILLIAM, ſhe being fet up by the Proteftants, and we by him being refcu'd from the Papifts; and was it not the abfurdeft Thing in the World to hear thoſe ſo tender of promifing Revenge on the Papifts, who fhow'd no fuch Tenderness for the King's Perfon, or involving their whole Contry in Devaftation, Blood, and Ruin. The fame Perfons did always rejoice at the Succeſs of the French in Flanders, were as much dejected whenever we had the better, and recover'd their ſprightly Looks again if they heard of any Advantage got over the Chriftians by the Turks in Hungary. They fhow'd their Inclination many ways, as well as by their wagering; and fom were almoft brought to that Ruin they deferv'd by expreffing their Zeal in this way. XVIII. IT were endleſs to enumerat the various Methods they took to clog the Wheels, and to disturb the Meaſures of the Govern- ment. They have bin every where of a piece, and where they join'd with the true Lovers of their Contry to do any good Thing, it appears. by their fubfequent Actions that it was not for the fame End, but ei- ther to pique the King, to divide his Friends, or to favor their own Defigns; witneſs the Bill for regulating Tryals in Cafes of bigh Trea- fun, and the disbanding of the Army. It is frequently very difficult in a popular Affembly to carry the beft Laws by a Majority of Voices, without taking the Advantage of many Men's Paffions or Refentments; and fo it happen'd in the Cafes now mention'd, as well as others; as I fòmtimes heard a very good and able Man fay, he was fure of ſuch a Man's Vote againſt the Army, becauſe he believ'd it wou'd expoſe us to be invaded by France; and that another wou'd be againſt it, not that he had fuch a foolish Imagination, but to vex the King, who hehad got a Notion was never well but at the Head of his Troops. But he that for the Sake of his Contry was againft a Standing Army in Time of Peace, will demonftrat his Sincerity by being for one in Time of War: for how any Government preferv'd its Freedom, cou'd offend others, or defend themſelves without Arms, let thoſe tell that are wiler. All we have to do is to avoid Extremes, not to think Soldiers always necef- fary, because they are fomtimes useful; nor because they are fomtimes hurt- ful, to think 'em always dangerous. But I hope I need not uſe any Ar- guments to prove, that it was not to fecure the Liberty of England that any appear'd againſt the Army, who were laft Year againft fecuring the Peace of Europe, or againft making War with France to bring this to pafs; who were for owning the Duke of Anjou King of Spain, to the Prejudice [ 13 ] Prejudice of all People's Right, the Diminution of cur cwn Trade, and deſtroying the Ballance of Europe; who were dilatory in affifting the Dutch or gaining Portugal, and the Princes of the Empire; who now do not think the French King's acknowleging the pretended Prince of Wales to be an Infraction of the Treaty of Resnik, nor a juft Cause of War from the English Nation; and who, hotwithstanding this In- dignity and Perfidiouſneſs, are for entering into a War as Affifiants to others, and not as Principals; which plainly fhows they do r.o think themſelves concern'd, nor care how little Progreſs is made by the Arms of the Emperor, the Dutch, and our other Allies. XIX. THIS difaffected Party of Proteftants being as much in the In- tereft of the pretended Prince of Wales as of the late King JAMES, and carying on the very fame Deſigns with our irreconcilable Enemies the Papifs, as is manifeft from the Incouragement, Affiftance, and Applaufes the former receive from the latter on all Occafions, the Approbation they give to their Procedings, and their conftant Fel lowſhip together: it is therfore highly neceflary at this Time for the Parlament to take fuch Meaſures as will not only difable them from undermining the Government, but likewife ferve to make 'em known to the King and People, who both commit frequent Miftakes far want of true Information in this Cafe. The profeft Papifts are well enough